Quotes of: John-mccain Keyword

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

Douglas MacArthur

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

Philip Caputo

I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.

Scott Ritter

Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Will Rogers

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The scenes on this field would have cured anybody of war.

William Tecumseh Sherman

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

I'm perpetual tourist, and that's the best way to travel. Nobody gets used to you, you make new friends without having to hear anyone's everyday problems, and you jet back still feeling like a know-it-all.

Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Volumes 1-4, Diary (1755-1804) and Autobiography

If we keep pulling death from the ground, we will reap death from the skies.

The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

St John had always been a fan of the RS Turbo, mainly due to the colour coded rear spoiler and air vents in the bonnet, which distinguished it from the more common and less powerful XR3i.

The Bizarre Letters of St John Morris

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America, 1751-2009: A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. John George Overmire and His Descendants

It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.

Pope John XXIII

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

Karl Marlantes

When I came there I found all my family gone, for the Indians had killed five people in the winter near that place, which frightened my wife and family away to Roanoke about 35 miles nearer in among the inhabitants, which I was informed of by an old ...

Christopher Gist

My father had been in the German Diplomatic Service, and although he had been in the United States since World War II and out of diplomacy, it was something that was very much talked about in the family. So when I went to college, it was always my in...

Hermann Eilts

I dabbled a little bit in the whole music thing but I've always thought about Bernie Taupin, who is Elton John's lyricist; Elton John is the great melody and song writer but Bernie Taupin is the one who writes all the lyrics. I don't write lyrics, an...

Carmen Ejogo

The greatness of Mac Rebennack, alias, Dr. John, also known as John Crieux, rests on his command of the musical use of idiomatic expression. Not a technically well-endowed singer, nor a great songwriter, he leaves his mark through the discipline and ...

Jon Landau

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are t...

Pope Paul VI

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Pope Paul VI